Biography

The purveyor of the most blood-curdling scream in pop music history (on his epochal cover of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends"), the deeply soulful Joe Cocker is also one of rock's most gifted interpretive singers, with a live show that is the stuff of legend. Cocker's stage trademark is a heaving, herky-jerky style, one cribbed from Ray Charles's passionate motions at the piano. After a breakthrough performance at Woodstock, he enjoyed a wave of success in the 1970s, peaking with the aching ballad (and eventual wedding standard) "You Are So Beautiful." After a brief hiatus, Cocker reemerged, duetting with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, one of the biggest hits of 1982.

Top Tracks

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• Could You Be Loved

• Cry Me A River

• Dear Landlord

• Delta Lady

• Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

• Feelin' Alright

• Fun Time

• Hard Knocks

• High Time We Went

• Hummingbird

• I Can Stand A Little Rain

• I Can't Say No

• I Don't Need No Doctor

• I'll Cry Instead

• I'm Your Man

• I've Got To Use My Imagination

• Just Pass It On

• Long As I Can See The Light

• Love Is Alive

• Put Out The Light

• Runaway Train

• She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

• Something

• Something To Say

• Space Captain

• Stay The Same

• Summer In The City

• The Letter

• The Weight

• Unchain My Heart

• Up Where We Belong

• Wasted Years

• Watching The River Flow

• When The Night Comes

• With A Little Help From My Friends

• You Are So Beautiful

• You Haven't Done Nothin'

Discography

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• Rarities Edition: Mad Dogs & Englishmen

  A&M

  2010

• Hard Knocks

  Sony Music Entertainment

  2010

• Hymn for My Soul

  EMI Music Distribution

  2007

• Heart & Soul

  EMI Music Distribution

  2004

• No Ordinary World

  Eagle Records / Red Ink Records

  2000

• Across from Midnight

  CMC International / Joe Cocker USA

  1997

• Organic

  550 Music / Sony Music Distribution

  1996

• Have a Little Faith

  550 Music / 550 Music/Epic

  1994

• Night Calls

  Capitol

  1992

• Joe Cocker Live

  Capitol/EMI Records / Capitol

  1990

• One Night of Sin

  Capitol

  1989

• Unchain My Heart

  Capitol/EMI Records / Capitol

  1987

• Cocker

  EMI-Capitol Special Markets / EMI Music Distribution

  1986

• Civilized Man

  Capitol

  1984

• Off the Record

  Sierra

  1984

• Luxury You Can Afford

  Asylum

  1978

• Live in L.A.

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1976

• Stingray

  Import

  1976

• I Can Stand a Little Rain

  Rebound Records

  1974

• Joe Cocker [A&M]

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1973